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...might expect from a master fabulist. Could real life have been nearly so much fun? "It was creative and chaotic at our house," says Steven's father Arnold, 68, a computer executive with twelve patents to his name. "I'd help Steven construct sets for his 8-mm movies, with toy trucks and papier mache mountains. At night I'd tell the kids cliffhanger tales about characters like Joanie Frothy Flakes and Lenny Ludhead. I see pieces of me in Steven. I see the storyteller...
...about an hour. His name was Chuck Silvers, head of the editorial department. He said he'd like to see some of my little films, and so he gave me a pass to get on the lot the next day. I showed him about four of my 8-mm films. He was very impressed. Then he said, 'I don't have the authority to write you any more passes, but good luck...
...week, he was able to spend three days on the studio lot, asking executives to watch his films. "They were embarrassed when I asked them to remove their pictures from the wall so I could project my little silent movies. They said, 'If you make your films in 16-mm or, even better, 35-mm, then they'll get seen.' So I immediately went to work in the college commissary to earn the money to buy 16-mm film and rent a camera. I had to get those films seen...
...course of the week, their predicament had changed dramatically. In the beginning, they were caught in a classic political hijacking, at the mercy of two desperate and determined men armed with grenades and a 9-mm pistol. By the third day, however, after more than 100 of the plane's original occupants had been released as the Boeing 727 zigzagged back and forth between Beirut and Algiers, they had become political hostages to a cause that few had previously known much, if anything, about...
...certain how the hijackers of TWA Flight 847 spirited their 9-mm pistol and two grenades aboard the plane. Ali Atwa, a member of the Shi'ite team who did not board and was subsequently arrested in Athens, told officials that the weapons had been wrapped in fiber glass to avoid detection. Security experts, who say that fiber glass cannot foil X-ray machines, believe it is more likely that the arms had been planted on the plane by an accomplice, perhaps an airport worker...